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21-553: The company's main studios were located in Wilmington, North Carolina , which is now EUE/Screen Gems Studios . The studio's first releases were in 1986. It went bankrupt two years later after Million Dollar Mystery , among other films, failed at the box office. Carolco Pictures acquired DEG in 1989. In 1983, Dino De Laurentiis produced Firestarter in Wilmington. The governor of North Carolina , Jim Hunt , claimed that

42-852: A partnership between film producer Garth Drabinsky and inventor Nat Taylor , based in Toronto, Ontario. At the time of its establishment in the United States , the Cineplex Odeon theatre chain and the tie-in studio were owned by the MCA entertainment group, also the then-owners of Universal Pictures . On August 27, 1986, Pan-Canadian renamed itself as Cineplex Odeon Films , and began operations at Los Angeles, California in November 1986; Garth Drabinsky became its chief officer. Cineplex Odeon Films made its first film to American screens, which

63-461: A pre-set Canadian distribution contract DEG had with the chain's Pan-Canadian Films division. DEG had an early version of Total Recall in pre-production with Patrick Swayze as Quaid and Bruce Beresford to direct ( David Cronenberg had also been approached), where it was to have been shot in Australia. After DEG's bankruptcy, the film went in turnaround to Carolco Pictures . Along with

84-757: Is currently owned by StudioCanal via its acquisition of the Paravision International library; with some exceptions. A few years back in 1988–89, L'Oréal controlled the film company, whose properties included the Filmation and De Laurentiis libraries. StudioCanal acquired the Paravision properties in 1994. Films that were distributed by United Artists are now owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, while films by HBO Pictures are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. North American home video rights to much of their films are split between MGM Home Entertainment (for

105-779: The Embassy Pictures library, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group's library was sold to Paravision, a subsidiary of L'Oréal , in 1989. The library was later sold to Canal+ and is currently held by StudioCanal . Wilmington, North Carolina Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 925557535 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:52:57 GMT Cineplex Odeon Films Cineplex Odeon Films (later known as Odeon Films )

126-588: The Global Television Network ). David J. Patterson became senior vice president of the Cineplex Odeon television division. In December 1993, it was announced by Michael Herman (Cineplex Odeon Films Canada Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs) that as part of a corporate restructuring, Bryan Gliserman had been appointed to the role of Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs effective January 17, 1994. Gliserman would oversee all of Cineplex Odeon Films operations, and would be responsible for

147-632: The Prince concert film Sign o' the Times , The Decline of the American Empire , Oliver Stone 's Talk Radio , and The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland . A home video division was also started in 1986, previously known as Pan-Canadian Video Presentations in the early 80s. The company also had a home video deal with Universal with most titles released through their MCA Video banner in

168-486: The 1990s, it changed its name to Odeon Films on account of its historic significance, before releasing one of their final films—the science-fiction film Cube (released in American markets under Trimark Pictures ' banner). In early 1998, 75% of Cineplex Odeon Films was sold to Alliance Communications for CA$ 5 million , shortly before it merged with Atlantis Communications into Alliance Atlantis . The remaining 25%

189-551: The Embassy library via PolyGram) and Lionsgate Films (for the rest). My Little Pony: The Movie and The Transformers: The Movie are now owned by Hasbro after obtaining the rights from Sunbow Entertainment (along with all other animated series based on Hasbro properties). Canadian distribution of DEG releases were done by Paramount Pictures through its Famous Players division. In May 1986, rival Cineplex Odeon Corporation unsuccessfully attempted to sue Paramount for breaching

210-680: The US and Canada. The home video division lasted until 1998, when it was absorbed into Alliance Atlantis along with its film distribution counterpart. The company received a deal with Virgin Vision in 1987 for the Canadian distribution of the output. Cineplex Odeon worked with Universal for distributing and co-producing some of their notable productions in the US, such as The Glass Menagerie , The Last Temptation of Christ , Oliver Stone 's Talk Radio , and Madame Sousatzka . The company also had

231-599: The filming increased economic activity in the state. Hunt used incentives and loans to allow De Laurentiis to buy a local warehouse to convert into a studio. In early 1984, De Laurentiis founded the North Carolina Film Corporation, with Martha Schumacher as president. In 1985, DEG acquired Embassy Pictures from The Coca-Cola Company , allowing for North American distribution of De Laurentiis' new product. Dino De Laurentiis continued to pre-sell his films for overseas distribution, as he had done in

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252-563: The industry standard of $ 14–16 million, with the notable exceptions of King Kong Lives and Tai-Pan , the only studio-level films DEG financed. Also that year, DEG entered into a strategic partnership with producers Fred Silverman and Gordon Farr to launch the syndicated strip Honeymoon Hotel , with a promise to run it for 100 episodes, and a new starring vehicle for Isabel Sanford . Later that year, DEG also financed another syndicated strip with Silverman and Farr to set up California Girls , with Viacom Enterprises serving as distributor of

273-426: The maintenance and improvement of Cineplex Odeon Films distribution services. Gliserman would also build relationships with key suppliers like Columbia/Tri-Star, Savoy Pictures and Gramercy Pictures. Prior to his promotion, Gliserman had spent 17 years in the Canadian film industry. He had experience with development, financing, production, distribution and exhibition posts with a wide variety of organization. Later in

294-527: The past. In May 1986, De Laurentiis took DEG public, raising $ 240 million in the process. The following month, DEG's first slate of films were released. In 1986, De Laurentiis formed an Australian subsidiary, De Laurentiis Entertainment Limited (DEL), which built a studio on the Gold Coast . Although De Laurentiis asserted that the company would make films on par with the major studios, most of DEG's slate consisted of films budgeted at $ 10 million or less, below

315-400: The series. By August 1987, DEG was $ 16.5 million in debt, citing the box-office failures and/or disappointments of its product. Dino De Laurentiis refused offers to sell the company because he wanted to retain controlling interest . Around the same time, De Laurentiis' daughter Raffaella exited her role as DEG's president of production. In 1988, Dino De Laurentiis, who founded the company quit

336-504: The studio amidst the failures of such films and formed a successor company Dino de Laurentiis Communications. De Laurentiis' North Carolina studio would be sold by Carolco Pictures and the Gold Coast studio would be acquired by Village Roadshow , whose intended strategy became the basis for Village Roadshow's Silver Series line, and some of the workforce joined the newly-formed Village Roadshow Pictures . The De Laurentiis library

357-442: The turf included licensing of films on home video, pay TV and theatrical distribution. In late 1987, it formed a partnership with Robert Redford 's production company Wildwood Enterprises, Inc . by setting up Northfolk Productions, for combining the production of both pictures with budgets less than $ 5 million, and has plans to produce at least five films for the next five years between the average budget of $ 4–5 million. By 1990, it

378-635: Was The Decline of the American Empire , produced by Rene Malo . The distribution branch then underwent a restructuring shortly afterwards, in order to turn the company into a U.S.-based subsidiary of the firm, with headquarters in Century City , with regional offices in New York City , Chicago and other markets, and the new Canadian division of the studio would start operating out of the new Cineplex Odeon corporate headquarters in Canada , and

399-516: Was Canada's largest independent film distribution company. On October 22, 1987, Cineplex Odeon created yet another subsidiary, that of the television division, Cineplex Odeon Television Productions, whose first offerings included 41 then-new episodes of the anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents , set for the USA Network in 1988, in association with MCA TV (they were seen in Canada on

420-754: Was donated to a foundation representing Canada's film schools. The sale took place as Cineplex Odeon Corporation was sold to Sony 's Loews Theaters to form Loews Cineplex Entertainment . The sale was partly due to a Canadian law that forbids foreign companies from owning domestic distributors as the company was no longer Canadian. The Cineplex Odeon Films library is currently copyrighted to Lionsgate Studios Corp (through Entertainment One ) and AMC Theatres , with SP Media Group owning distribution rights outside Canada. Notable films from Cineplex Odeon's early days include The Glass Menagerie , The Last Temptation of Christ , Prancer , The Grifters , Mr. & Mrs. Bridge , Madame Sousatzka , Jacknife ,

441-616: Was the film distribution unit of the Canadian cinema chain Cineplex Odeon Corporation . The company was originally named Pan-Canadian Film Distributors . In 1998, the company was purchased by Alliance Communications, whose film unit was merged into Alliance Atlantis , split from the company in 2007 as Alliance Films , and folded into Entertainment One , currently a subsidiary of Lionsgate Studios Corp . The company began in 1979 as Pan-Canadian Film Distributors ,

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